![]() Then, and not until then, did the condemned man abandon all hope. John O’Brien, the genial, good-natured, time-honored guard, who has witnessed more legal executions perhaps than any man in the United States, said: “Well, Mike, it is time to prepare for this unpleasant ordeal,” at the same time placing a stool for the condemned man to sit upon, and motioned for the barber to proceed. He watched the old Annex clock with an anxious heart, as it slowly registered the flow of the river of time into the ocean of eternity.Īt 11:30 p.m., the attending guards filed into the Death Cage accompanied by the prison barber. He had hopes that the governor would, at the last moment, commute his death sentence to one of life imprisonment. He had maintained all along that something would intervene to save him from the chair. He ate sparingly of his supper and refused to take stimulants of any kind (whisky). He flatly refused all spiritual consolation and would tolerate the presence of neither preacher nor priest. Schiller grew extremely nervous when he heard the officers testing the chair, and spent the evening pacing restlessly back and forth in the death cage. Schiller, serial number 34,925, the Youngstown wife-murderer, just after midnight on June 17, 1904.Įlectrician Marden had tested the chair several times that evening and pronounced it in perfect order. NEVER BEFORE IN the gruesome history of the Annex (the official term used then for Ohio’s death row) was witnessed such a horrible and sickening sight as that which attended the execution of Michael G. I’m tired of you acting you like did all your homework when you just grabbed it from this blog. Notice to content creators (podcasters, YouTubers, bloggers, listicle regurgitators,) do not use this material without accurate accreditation to HCD. (All words and sentences in parenthesis below are the editor’s.) The prior twelve electrocutions had gone well, and there was no reason for prison officials to think Schiller’s would be any different. Schiller was executed on June 17, 1904, he was the thirteenth man to be electrocuted by the state of Ohio. Fogle’s story retold below is augmented by newspaper reports written by journalists present for the execution as official witness for the public. Īs an insider privy to all that occurred within prison walls, Fogle’s book contains exclusive information of Schiller’s execution. The first and last detailed account of his execution (until now) appeared in the 1908 book, Palace of Death, A True Tale of 59 Executed Murders, by Captain of the Guards Humphrey M. When it came to the electric chair, besides being burned or set afire, it was occasionally necessary for officials to order two, three, four, five, and even six applications of the electrical charge before they were declared dead.īut that’s not what happened to Ohio State Penitentiary prisoner Michael Schiller during the midnight hour of June 17, 1904. In all the case studies of botched executions throughout the world, there have been: prisoners whose neck had to be hacked several times before it was separated prisoners hanged who were partially or fully decapitated those who strangled to death without a broken neck and a few who even survived their own hanging. Schiller’s story is unique because he is the only executed prisoner who came back to life. His absence from history of executed criminals is just as baffling to me as his own executions. Schiller does not appear on any “Top 10” listicle, nor in Wikipedia, or even on the Death Penalty Information Center’s 10,000-page website – the largest resource for the dissemination of death penalty related information. Content churners are untrained, poorly paid, and the yet-to-be observed consequence is that the world is drowning in content. Ad revenue is the motive and there’s no motive to reward quality work because that’s just how the USA is now. ![]() Over the last twenty-years, I have become convinced that the internet is 10-percent original, and the rest is just a copy.Ĭase in point: When it comes to botched executions, the ‘same’ listicle gets republished several times a year by different content farms looking for cheap and easy traffic to make a fast buck. This is a story I have wanted to write for a long time. Dedicated to Bela Deraj who told me to get back to work! □ ![]()
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